Abstract
The purpose of this Article is to examine the exercise and the usefulness of the public inquiry model, in the Northern Ireland conflict. This Article examines its role as both an accountability mechanism and a truth process, and in doing so I consider the proposition that public inquiries are employed by governments not as a tool to find truth and establish accountability for human rights violations, but as a way of deflecting criticism and avoiding blame.
Recommended Citation
Angela Hegarty,
The Government of Memory: Public Inquiries and the Limits of Justice in Northern Ireland,
26 Fordham Int'l L.J. 1148
(2002).
Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ilj/vol26/iss4/10